Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.

Thought is the seed of action.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.